The corpus record

σελην-ιάζομαι

seleniazomai

to be moonstruck

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Where it lives

Matthew 2 · 1.12/10k

What it meant

σελην-ιάζομαι · selēn-iazomai — LSJ

to be moonstruck, epileptic

to be moonstruck, i.e. epileptic, Ev.Matt. 4.24, 17.15, Vett.Val. 113.10.

2 to be sublunar

to be sublunar, i.e. subject to change and decay, -ομένης τῆς φύσεως Zos.Alch. p.107 B., cf. Cat.Cod.Astr. 8(3).146.

In the wild

σεληνιάζεται · selēniazetai New Testament, Matthew 17.14 (DIORISIS sentence 704)
σεληνιαζομένους · selēniazomenous New Testament, Matthew 4.24 (DIORISIS sentence 80)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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